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Have you ever really disliked a teacher?

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Klingyston · 15/05/2012 20:33

and if so, dd you do anything about it? My child is in year 5 and her teacher goes on and on about how she isn't enthusiastic enough in her subjects at every opportunity but when pressed admits she is doing very well. all the other teachers are lovely about her. parents evening yesterday and another earful and it's really getting me down. My daughter isn't enthusiastic unless something is very exciting, and school just isn't. really startrd to dislike this teacher.

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MaureenMLove · 15/05/2012 20:41

Just started disliking her? There's only 8.5 weeks left of the academic year! Is it worth it?

Do you think it's just a clash of personalities? DD had a year at primary where she didn't seem to do too well. She just didn't particularly like the teacher. She came on leaps and bounds the following year, when she got a new teacher.

OrmIrian · 15/05/2012 20:46

Don't waste your energy. There will be a different teacher next year.

I'd be a bit worried i my child wasn't excited about school, at least some of the time. At that age.

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Klingyston · 15/05/2012 20:53

Thanks that's helpful. She gets excited about special events but she's not desperate to go off and research the Tudors in her own time, for example.

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TalkinPeace2 · 15/05/2012 22:50

I had more of a problem with a teacher who did not like DD
to the extent that other people commented that the teacher ALWAYS glared at her
deliberately spelt her name wrong
and was offish at all times
even a year later when she came back to visit on maternity leave
the head had to warn the teacher to hide her feelings

FunnysInLaJardin · 15/05/2012 22:53

I loathed DS1's reception teacher. She was a total cow and rude to both the children and their parents. She retires this year, so thankfully DS2 won't have her. Such a shock compared to DS1's lovely nursery teacher who was approachable and inclusive. Mind you, I was warned

SunflowersSmile · 16/05/2012 07:07

Mostly ds teachers have been great. Like Talkinpeace I was bemused by a teacher who clearly found my ds a pain. He was and still is a bit of a chatterbox. Teacher came to me once and said 'I think we have a personality clash'. He was 5 and I felt her response not really on. I was glad when she went on maternity leave.

exoticfruits · 16/05/2012 07:13

You are bound to come across ones that you don't like- or you will at least have ones that you like more than others. In its way it is quite a good preparation for life, learning to handle it. It is only for a year. In your case the year is nearly over and she will probably blossom when she gets a change.

Flightty · 16/05/2012 07:23

Yes, I have one I really dislike. She's made ds very unhappy for no reason other than she just doesn't like me/us.

She's a complete cow. Luckily she went on mat leave and is only coming back for a few weeks before he moves classes. If she had stayed all year I'd seriously have considered taking him out/HE for a year. She was just spiteful.

webwiz · 16/05/2012 09:59

DS's year 1 teacher didn't like me - she thought I was some sort of middle class busybody because I was a school governor - and so she used to take great delight in telling me he wasn't bright at all, he was just in a very poor cohort and so it gave a distorted view of his abilities

She was the only one though and that's with three DCs.

wordfactory · 16/05/2012 10:00

Oh yes. My DS has a teacher who is a revoltingly self important bully. I loath him.

But I haven't said anyhting because DS isn't too worried. He finds said teacher pitiable and laughable. So...

Solo · 17/05/2012 17:03

Yes. Ds's first teacher in reception. She took an instant dislike to my 4yo boy :( and was just so mean to him. Conversely, she was an excellent teacher.

tumbleweedblowing · 17/05/2012 17:05

Yes there is one at the DDs school who I dislike intensely. She is so thick skinned she doesn't mind. The HT moved the classes round last year and DD missed her then, but I have a horrible horrible feeling she's heading our way for next year.

Unless she retires. Which I may actually pray for.

Beanbagz · 17/05/2012 17:11

Yes but i steeled myself with the thought that it was only one year. Thankfully she didn't teach DC2 though her DCs are at the school.

At this point in the school there isn't really much point making a fuss (unless she'll have the teacher next year).

BerryCheesecake · 17/05/2012 19:29

Tumbleweed - when you say his teacher was 'mean' to him, what sort of things did she do tt constitued as mean! It's awful To think that people in a position of power can get away with bing mean to a 4 year old! :(

BerryCheesecake · 17/05/2012 19:29

Sorry that question was fir Solo!!

pumpkinsweetie · 17/05/2012 19:36

Oh yes i have, my 6 year old had a teacher for two years in a row, she has now retired thank the lord.
I disliked particular teacher due to her attitude on bullying- my daughter was strangled by a year 2 boy at dinnertine, dinner lady reported incident to teacher- the teacher did not even bother to tell me.
My daughter was upset for days and she finally admitted to me what happened so i marched to the teacher first thing the next day!
She said "i dont believe this yr 2 child did it they are a very well behaved child and even if they did children fight, its the age"
This happened twice
So the child didnt even get penalized!-she has a new teacher now and shes lovely

madwomanintheattic · 17/05/2012 20:05

Yes. Dd2's yr2 teacher. I refused to have anything to do with her for the entire year and sent dh to parent teacher stuff. She was a complete fruitcake. Dd2 came home one day and told me that mrs x had told she wasn't allowed to wear that particular sweater again, and she had to tell me, as it was too difficult to get off (tight around the neck). Fair play, dd2 has cp and struggles to get clothes on and off. So the next day I sent her in her sister's identical (but slightly different colour and 4 years bigger) sweater. When it came home that night, someone had taken a pair of scissors and cut a v shaped slit down the front of the neckline, for about four inches. Completely ruined.

I asked dd2 whether she had struggled to get the sweater off, she said no, it was massive and easy peasy and had been hanging on her peg all day. Loon.

She also told me that dd2 was absolutely fine and didn't need any help moving around school. The same dd2 then fell backwards down the stairs to the classroom and took out the TA, who hit her head on the concrete.

I just couldn't be in the same room with her, she made me want to scream.

But anyway, in your case, meh. It's practically the end of term. Don't waste any energy getting stressed over it.

TheFallenMadonna · 17/05/2012 20:10

There is a parent who is less than fond of me. I am lurking to see if she posts...

LynetteScavo · 17/05/2012 20:15

I really dislike DSs teacher this year. Thankfully DS doesn't think she's that bad, although he's upstairs crying to DH now because today she wouldn't explain to him how to do the work in class in a way he understood. He didn't complete the piece of work, so suggested bringing it home to do (said teacher sends work home or keeps child in if it's not done in class) but she said there would be no one at home who could explain it to him. (What she probably meant was "I hear your mum is getting a leeetle bit peeed off at you spending 1.5 hours a night on finishing off school work, and I can't be arsed having anymore conversations with the head about my teaching style)

She does get results, though.

LynetteScavo · 17/05/2012 20:16

Oh, and that's the teacher who didn't accept DSs home made chocolate bar. That's when I started to dislike her......

elliepac · 17/05/2012 20:50

Ds currently has a supply teacher covering for his lovely Yr 4 teacher's maternity tool. The man is a mean spirited bully and seems to take delight in upsetting my ds by shouting at him. I told ds he couldn't be that bad and just get on with it and then I actually had to talk to him and realised what a vile man he is. I have now changed to tack to reminding ds he only has 8 weeks to go!

I say all of this as a teacher searching through the posts to see if I recognise myself.

Solo · 17/05/2012 20:55

Well, it's some time ago now, but one incident in particular that sticks in my mind was giving Ds a good telling off for 'play fighting.' Because 'there's playing and there's fighting and you can't mix the two Mrs Solo and we don't have fighting here.' He was the youngest in the class and a happy little boy, but she was just so hard on him all the time ~ overly strict imo and he changed.

Solo · 17/05/2012 20:57

And he was never picked to do anything that reception children would've considered important either, he was never allowed to take the register to the office for instance and loads of things like that.

lou2321 · 21/05/2012 13:46

One of DS1's teachers is a bit odd. She seems nice enough but insists on telling me something bad about him when telling how good his work is - ie telling me how good a piece of work is then saying but he burst into tears for no reason today! kind of opposite to the 'sandwich' tecnique, she tells me something bad, then the good thing, then something else bad. He's never in trouble so its almost like she needs to tell me something bad because he is academically able.

She has had 2 parents in tears over the way she has spoken to them about their children.

He may have her as his full time teacher next year which I'm dreading a bit but I am thinking it may just be that she is a fab teacher but with poor communication skills!

lou2321 · 21/05/2012 13:47

Thefallenmadonna - is it me?

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